192 CORTINARIUS 



violet " Quel., slightly adnexed, somewhat crowded. Flesh reddish, 

 thin. Spores ferruginous, "pruniform, 8/x " Quel. Woods. Sept. 

 Rare. 



***St. yellowish, generally becoming pale. 



531. C. (Hydro.) detonsus Fr. Detonsus, sheared off. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., bright yellowish, tan colour when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, conical, then expanded, subumbonate, striate to the middle when 

 moist, slightly silky when dry, fragile. St. 58 cm. x 4 mm., yellowish, 

 equal, or attenuated upwards, soft, smooth. Gills bright yellowish, 

 then brick cinnamon, adnate, ventricose, subdistant. Flesh whitish, 

 thin. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4 /z, minutely verru- 

 cose " Rick. Amongst moss in woods. Sept. Rare. 



532. C. (Hydro.) obtusus Fr. Fr. Icon. 1. 163, fig. 3. Obtusus, obtuse. 



P. 1-4 cm., bay brown, ferruginous, soon cinnamon, pale ochraceous, 

 or tan whitish when dry, submembranaceous, conical, then campanu- 

 late, at length expanded and obtusely umbonate, smooth; margin 

 striate. St. 510 cm. x 48 mm., tan yellowish, becoming whitish when 

 dry, ventricose, curved, flexuose, often attenuated at the base, fragile, 

 sprinkled with adpressed, white, silky fibrils. Cortina white, very fuga- 

 cious. Gills tawny cinnamon, adnate, ventricose, very broad, rather 

 thick, subdistant, the shorter ones narrower, connected by veins, edge 

 often white-fringed. Flesh yellowish, or reddish, thick at the disc. 

 Spores brownish ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-5-6/1,, verrucose. 

 Smell strong. Woods, especially pine. April Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



var. gracilis Quel. Grevillea, t. 129, fig. 1. Gracilis, slender. 



Differs from the type in the pale yellow p. 



533. C. (Hydro.) saniosus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 163, fig. 2. 



Saniosus, full of bloody matter. 



P. 1-3 cm., tawny cinnamon, fuscous tawny, or cinnamon, becoming 

 tawny and shining when dry, slightly hygrophanous, fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then expanded, acutely, or obtusely umbonate, smooth, "covered 

 with yellow fibrils" Quel.; margin fibrillosely torn. St. 3-6 cm. x 3- 

 4 mm., dingy yellow, becoming yellow, rarely tawny or fuscous, equal, 

 firm, somewhat curved, flexuose, covered with the yellow fibrils of the 

 cortina, or fibrillosely silky, sometimes becoming saffron red at the 

 base. Coitin&yellow,fibrillose. Gills pale, then dark cinnamon, adnate, 

 ventricose, somewhat crowded, or subdistant. Flesh concolorous, 

 sometimes becoming yellow in the st., thin. Spores ferruginous, "nearly 

 almond-shaped, 9-10 x 4-5/u,, verrucose " Rick. Smell strong. 

 Woods, pastures and swamps. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



